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From:
Thomas Cushman Buddington
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 December 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 211-212
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[December?] [1880?]
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:
Discusses the petition to get ARW a civil pension.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis ("Frank") Darwin
Date:
[December?] [1880?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 211: 69
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84)
Summary:
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 115
Summary:
Island Life.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:
Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 72
Summary:
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
the Ostschweizerische geographisch-commercielle Gesellschaft
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
MS 8261, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [p. 361]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 December 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 254
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 111
Summary:
Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 12
Summary:
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Engelmann
Date:
4 December 1880
Source of text:
George Engelmann papers, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 December 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 290
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 216
Summary:
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 148–9
Summary:
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 111
Summary:
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 December 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 504-5
Summary:
Island Life.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project